9. Food crisis meets chaos in Horn of Africa
                   
iht.com     May 17, 2008            

After three seasons of below-average rainfall, the people of central Somalia are beginning to fear the worst. Somalia — and much of the volatile Horn of Africa, for that matter — was about the last place on earth that needed a food crisis. "We're really in the perfect storm," said Jeffrey Sachs,... [read full story]                    


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